Irish deputy PM tells Brexit secretary backstop 'is only viable solution'

Simon Coveney and Stephen Barclay dig in over conflicting positions on Irish backstopIreland’s deputy prime minister has hit back at suggestions that the EU is finally bending to Boris Johnson’s demands to drop the backstop on the Irish border.Speaking at a conference in Paris, Simon Coveney said “no one has yet come up with credible arrangements, or technological solutions, which could replace those temporary arrangements in the withdrawal agreement”. Continue reading...